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Updated: June 24, 2025
At the end of the season, not countin' what we'd spent for livin' and expenses, we had a balance owin' us at our fish dealer's up to Boston of five hundred dollars two fifty apiece. My partner was goin' to be married in the spring and was cal'latin' to use his share to buy furniture for the new house with.
"It don't make any difference whether you have or not," he said. "But if you ain't I wonder what makes you look so scared. There's nothin' to be scared about, as I see. I'm just cal'latin' to do our dear old chummie, Cap'n Sam, a kindness, that's all. He's lost some money up there to the bank, I understand. Some says it's four thousand dollars and some says it's forty.
I've been over that thing time and time again, and I've felt like I was sort of a firebug myself sometimes. I've heard folks layin' it to fust one and then the other, and cal'latin' that Web did it himself to git the insurance, and all the time I've known who really did do it, and haven't said anything. I jest couldn't. You see, John and me's been brothers almost.
"I was saying I guess it's about time for me to be moving on. The grass is starting" "Are you cal'latin' to live on grass?" Leander drawled with cutting irony. "Gettin' tired of the old woman's cooking? Well, she ain't much of a cook!" Uncle John remained silent, working at his hands. His mouth, trembled under his thin straggling beard. "I never was better treated in my life, and you know it.
"Backing water? What do you mean by that?" "In this Lane business. You ain't cal'latin' to sell out to Colton, after all?" "Well, hardly. Why do you say that?" "Nothin', maybe. But they tell me you're kind of thick with the R'yal family lately. Beriah Holt says he see you and the Colton girl come out of the woods back of his place one afternoon a spell ago.
"That ain't nothin'. Once I bu'sted up a Mingo camp to git my dawg. They'd caught the critter an' was cal'latin' to sculp him alive. Got him free, too, an' the damn pup was that stirred up by his feelin's that he couldn't tell who was his friends, an' he chawed my thumb somethin' cruel." He stepped to the loophole, and after peering out mumbled: "Changin' mighty smart."
"Figgerin' whether I'd better begin here or over by the barn. Oh, it's you, Roscoe, is it! Land sakes! I thought first 'twas Dorindy. Where you bound?" "Up to the village," I said. "Ain't goin' to the post-office, be you?" "I may; I don't know." Lute sighed. "I was kind of cal'latin' to go there myself," he observed, regretfully.
"Well, I should think you might know by this time. Now about that mortgage." "Hey? Oh, yes yes! You want a mortgage on Abner's place over to East Wellmouth. Um! Well, I know the property and about what it's wuth which ain't much. What are you cal'latin' to do live there?" "Yes, if I can carry out the plan I've got in my head. I'm thinkin' of fixin' up that old place and livin' in it.
"How was you cal'latin' to git there?" he asked, looking at our friend's evening shoes. "I thought at first I would walk," was the reply, "but I rather think I will stop at Robinson's and get him to send me over." "I guess you won't do nothin' o' the sort," declared David. "Tom's all hitched to take you over, an' when you're ready jest ring the bell."
Then the other hand'll reach over and get hold of the paper he's cal'latin' to buy, get a good clove hitch onto it, and then for a minute he'll stand there lookin' first at the cent and then at the paper and rubbin' the money between his finger and thumb he's figgerin' to have a little of the copper smell left on his hand even if he has to let go of the coin, you see and " Mary laughed.
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